Mitch McConnell | Responds to C-J editorial

9:00 PM,
Dec. 20, 2013

Mitch McConnell

Written by

Mitch McConnell
| Special to The Courier-Journal

The Courier-Journal's latest editorial ("Paralyzed by Fear," Dec. 20) continues to ignore the facts. Instead of writing about the work Sen. Rand Paul and I have done to help Kentucky, including the pro-coal listening session I recently held in Pikeville, this paper chose instead to write an editorial attacking it. So once again, your readers don't get the facts - just liberal spin.

So I appreciate the space to lay out a few facts that would otherwise go unreported.

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